Max e Nigel

Two very young protagonists, little big adventures, mysteries to solve and surprising discoveries. Max and Nigel, with their innate ability to always get into trouble, juggle like ninjas between arrogant classmates, sullen professors and parents who think they know everything. Max Pagani is 11 years old and has a talent for getting into trouble all the time. Luckily, however, he can count on his friend Nigel: together with Wheng and Roberto they form an inseparable quartet, the 4 desperados. The name of the group says it all: they are not the smartest in the school, nor are they the most beautiful. The girls, needless to say, don't give them the time of day, while the older ones pick on them relentlessly. Yet, amidst class thefts, mysterious presences and impossible investigations, they always come out safe and sound. And they get more than one pebble off their shoe. An adventurous novel with characters destined to immediately enter the heart of every reader. Because, at the end of the day, Max and Nigel - with their crazy ideas, Hamletic doubts, fears and unshakable convictions - are still us, but different.

Antonio Manzini was born in Rome in 1964.
He is an actor, screenwriter and writer.
He graduated from the Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art in Rome in 1988.
He has written screenplays for Alex Infascelli (Il siero della vanità, 2004) and Gabriele Salvatores (Come Dio comanda, 2008).
He is the television author of Il delitto di Via poma (directed by Roberto Faenza), numerous episodes of Squadra Antimafia and Il XII apostolo.
He was editor and screenwriter of the series Benvenuti a tavola 2 and Buscetta boss dei due mondi. In 2016, he directed his first film Cristian e Palletta contro tutti.
In 2005 he published his first novel: Sangue Marcio (Fazi editore), followed by La giostra dei criceti (Einaudi, 2007, reissued by Sellerio, 2017) and the short stories: Il mio tesoro and Giochiamo, with Niccolò Ammaniti (published in Crimini and in Il momento è delicato, Einaudi).
For Sellerio, he has published the novels in the successful series of Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone: Pista nera (2013), La costola di Adamo (2014), Non è stagione (2014), Era di maggio (2015) and 7-7-2007 (2016), Cinque indagini romane per Rocco Schiavone (2016), Pulvis et umbra (2017), Fate il vostro gioco (2018), Rien ne va plus (2019), Ah l'amore l'amore (2020) Vecchie conoscenze (2021) and Le ossa parlano (2022). From these novels is based the TV series Rocco Schiavone, on air on Rai 2 since November 2016, of which Antonio Manzini is scriptwriter together with Maurizio Careddu.
Also for Sellerio he published Sull'orlo del precipizio (2015), several short stories later collected in the anthology L'anello mancante (2018), Ogni riferimento è puramente casuale (2019), Gli ultimi giorni di quiete (2020), La mala erba (2022), Elp (2023) and Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l’amico misteriosamente scomparso in Sud America? (2023).
For Chiarelettere he published Orfani bianchi (2016).
His novels have been translated in several countries.

In 2024, Mondadori published Tutti i Particolari in Cronaca (Mondadori, 2024). His latest novel starring Rocco Schiavone is Il passato è un morto senza cadavere (Sellerio, 2024).

In 2025, Sellerio published Max and Nigel, the first volume of a new series of adventures dedicated to readers aged 9 and up.

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